kevin922

Wow.. good job on saving yourself! I've got 2 on my wingsuit, definately adds to the pucker factor. See you soon. Kevin

WTF is this? :) video here : asf

didn't a wise person once say it isn't how much you make, it's how much you take home? :)

The article will be reproduced on http://www.flybirdman.com in january, to give parachutist exclusiveness during the publication month. Kevin

Yes a neptune counts more then 119 seconds. The way it was explained to me was that the neptune has a certain amount of memory, it can all be used on one jump or be used on 100 jumps. I've had some jumps on my neptune read 130 seconds. The protrack chops all jumps off at 119 seconds so you for sure can get X number of jumps on a protrack. Kevin

I definately agree with some of the comments here, with the exception of the "year of production" error which will be fixed in January's parachutist, the article is accurate. Currently there isn't a REQUIREMENT for training by a BMI or anyone else to fly wingsuits. The article clearly states the preferred method to learn how to fly wingsuits is through a BMI. I think BASE jumping is similar in the training -- you can go take a course by basic research or some of the other big base companies to learn how to base jump, or you can hook up with your local base jumper and mentor, or if you're really ballsy you can read up a bunch watch some videos and go do it yourself. The same is true in wingsuit flight, I believe the chain of "best way to worst way" is obvious. The article was intended to give someone all the options they have available, I don't believe it recommends "just going and taking a suit out with no training" as the best option. I personally do not go out "renegade" training people to fly a wingsuit. I will, like phree, give advice to people about them evaluate if they should even be thinking about flying a wingsuit and recommend the BEST way to learn how to fly one. Again the article's purpose was to give information about wingsuit flight, promote the discipline, and 'spread the love' sorry if anyone took offense to how it was written. Kevin

Had dinner with diverdriver tonight, it was barely snowing.. went to my GF's parents house, came out a few hours later and it was nothing but white stuff EVERYWHERE.. few inches.. wonder if they'll close the govt tom :)

are you dis-allowing wingsuit high altitude jumps?

Helmets (with the exception of camera helments) will most likely always aid in safety during your flight. I am one who doesn't wear them on most of my flights simply because the only helmet I have is a camera helmet, and i'm not sure I want to deal with the added risk of jumping a camera helmet on every dive. You can, however, see in the crew swoop video found here that it "saved" my ass when another flyer's foot impacted my head at a fairly high rate.. you can see the "smack" in the video.. not sure what would be hurting if I hadn't had the helmet on.... A "normal" helmet is on my list of things to get next, so that way I do have something on every jump.. Hitting a portion of the plane is another risk which a helmet could be a life saver on. Keep in mind while flying a wingsuit has a high chance of creating a scenerio where a cypress fire will not occur, being unconcious in a wingsuit creates a scenerio where it will most likely fire.. just another point on the note of safety.

What is this a repost? I don't think it's fake :)

So that comment kinda stuck huh :) I do think that (just from a fashion point of view) the suits from birdman look better. That matter suit (on the ground) to me, looks like a big shape-less shoppingbag that's loosely draped around your body on the ground. Where as a birdmansuit is much tighter/form fitting. well that is the difference between a suit that is made for you and one that isn't :)

That is not entirely true. If improperly assembled there is a possibility however, done correctly it is not an issue as the system is redundant in keeping the handles in place with both velcro and metal snaps , which can be seen HERE and once properly assembled it looks like THIS Cool! glad to know that issue has been resolved.

I have a matter in the mail to me, and have been informed Matter is doing a "lot" of design changes to their suit and should have a prototype or early production suit early next year of that. Cedric didn't get into details as to what changes they were making. I haven't laid eyes on the other suits in person, but from all the research i've done it appears that yes birdman seems to be the superior product. Both from a quality of construction to performance range. I have met and talked with Robert and Jari and have talked on the phone with Loic and Cedric. Robert has really done some ingeious things with the birdman wingsuits, one example is the rear air deflector - it is an awesome design... but this is not to say that a s-fly or a matter isn't a good suit, I think the performance range is totally different. How does a wingsuit "perform"? Is it forward speed? is it vertical speed? is it the fact it doesn't kill you? Remember the swooping down the mountain video? That wasn't a birdman suit doing that - it was basically an s-fly. Does that mean anything other than the fact Loic is a badass with big balls? I'm sure the same feat could be done with a birdman suit - i can't say i'd be the first to try it though, I don't like cold weather :-). Some of the same design flaws with the crossbow are said to exist in the matter. (crossbow does NOT equal sfly). One of these is quite scary, the ability for the cutaway and reserve handles to go inside the suit. I will try and update and have the most detailed information about ALL the suits on flybirdman.com as I can get my hands on the stuff as well as fly 'em. Kevin

I believe portions of it, if not the whole thing, will be on flybirdman.com still working out the issues with USPA on it.

I don't know if you checked flybirdman out, but there is some good info and pictures of the S-Fly. The S-Fly's wings do inflate, the profile is different from birdman suits. Also there is comparisons between the crossbow, s-fly, and matter. The short story is the crossbow and the MTR-1 are almost identical, with the exception of some fabric that covers every other cell on the leading edge of the wing of the MTR (which supposadly gives the matter less wing pressure?) they are basically the exact same. The S-FLy is a "2 year upgrade" of the crossbow, you will notice the design appears to be the exact same. Loic basiclly improved construction so that the tears that ou will see after little use in the crossbow and mtr1 don't occur. No big profile changes or anything.

thanks :) it was definatley time Parachutist had some wingsuit covg.

tmobile sidekick, going back this week :)

Record it, and play it back louder and slower - maybe then you can understand it. (a lot of Americans seem to think this works for English anyway...) i did, that's what I got :)

Well I can't type it in here cause I don't understand, but if you dial that international number you get an operator error in spanish.. it says something like : "el telephono de mobile que llama esta parado or foroda contuda esta momento" is that the mobile phone of the person you're trying to call is busy or something?

Call matter clothing and tell me what the hell that message says.. some operator error i don't have any idea what it's saying.. if you're in the US it probably won't cost you to hear the message :) 01134686317318 is the # from the us

Well websters.com doesn't have it, but I did find this interesting tid bit: Longest word in English (Redirected from English language/Long words) There are endless debates over what is the longest word in the English language, and these debates revolve around the terms of consideration. If scientific or technical terms are allowed wholesale, then there is a potential for words of indescribable length, particularly in regard to the naming of organic and biological compounds such as proteins, such as Methionylglutaminy...serine (q.v.). Table of contents [showhide] 1 Popular usage 2 A coined term 3 Other long words 4 Constructions 5 Technical terms 6 Place Names 7 Sesquipedalianism Popular usage Antidisestablishmentarianism (a movement opposed to the separation of church and state) at 28 letters is popularly believed to be the longest word. It is the "best-known". coined term The word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (defined as "a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust") is certainly the longest word ever to appear in a non-technical dictionary of English (Source: OED). This 45 letter word first appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1936, and has also since appeared in the Webster's Third New International Dictionary (under the alternate spelling of -konioisis), the Random House Unabridged Dictionary and the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, to name but a few. Critics have complained that this word is a technical term (specifically, a medical term), and hence not worthy of consideration as the "longest word in general usage". There is yet another, more serious problem with the term, which is referred to by logologists as "p45", which is that the word is a hoax. In Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics, in several separate articles (May 1985, pp. 95-96; November 1986, pp. 205-206; May 1987, p. 82), researchers discovered that the word was a neologism invented in 1935 by Everett M. Smith, president of the National Puzzler's League, as an example of a theoretical word that might one day enter use if trends in medical word coinage were to continue. Research into the body of medical literature prior to his usage in 1935 have never successfully shown that the word existed prior to his coinage. Other long words Everett Smith's prediction seems to have been proven true by the 207,000+ letter word cited by the Guinness Book of Records which allegedly represents the name for human mitochondrial DNA. The longest word which appears in William Shakespeare's works is the 27 letter honorificabilitudinitatibus. This is arguably an English word, but only because he used it. The well-known song-title from the movie Mary Poppins Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious with 34 letters does appear in several dictionaries, but only as a proper noun, and defined in reference to the song title. Hence it may well be dismissed as a "real" word. The Guinness Book of Records in 1992 (and subsequent editions) declares the "longest real word" in the English language to be floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters. Defined as the act of estimating as worthless, its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741. In recent times its usage has been recorded in the proceedings of the US Senate (Senator Jesse Helms used the word in 1999 during the debate on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty [Randolph V. Cinco]) and at the White House (by Press Secretary Mike McCurry in his December 6, 1995, White House Press Briefing). The character Big Bird of Sesame Street sings the Latin alphabet, thinking it is a word. He reads Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz aloud as "(ab-cud-ef-gï)(jek'l-m'nâp-kwûr)(stööv-wik-ziz)" and breaks into song. Constructions It should be noted that English is a language which permits the legitimate extension of existing words to serve new purposes by the addition of prefixes and suffixes. This is sometimes referred to as agglutinative construction. As an example, one of the longest words used in the Wikipedia is contraneoantidisestablishmentarianalistically at 45 letters (although there are reasons to believe this was somewhat contrived). The length of this word is enhanced by the use of "contra" and especially the suffix "-alistically" which can frequently be added to words ending in "-tion" (eg. nationalistically, traditionalistically, floccinaucinihilipilificationalistically). The word nonetheless is an interesting study in just how complex a word can legitimately be assembled. This word can be analysed as follows: -disestablishment- - the separation of Church and State (specifically in this context it is the political movement of the 1860s in Great Britain) disestablishment-arian - a person in support of the movement designed to bring about the above (hereafter called the 'first' movement). anti-disestablishment-arian - a person belonging to the movement opposed to the first movement. neo-anti-disestablishment-arian - a person belonging to the new version of the movement opposed to the first movement. (Appropriate because in this context the original antidisestablishment movement had become defunct). contra-neo-anti-disestablishment-arian - a person belonging to the movement opposed to the new version of the movement opposed to the first movement. contra-neo-anti-disestablishment-arian-alistically - behaving in the manner of a person belonging to the movement opposed to the new version of the movement opposed to the first movement. It could be extended more by saying: pseudo-contra-neo-anti-disestablishment-arian-alistically - false behaviour in the manner of a person belonging to the movement opposed to the new version of the movement opposed to the first movement. pro-pseudo-contra-neo-anti-disestablishment-arian-alistically - in favour of the false behaviour in the manner of a person belonging to the movement opposed to the new version of the movement opposed to the first movement. Of course, the original "disestablishment" can be broken down linguistically into simpler forms. It is first based on "establishment", or the bringing into being of something or the existence of that something. "Establishment" is then based on the verb "establish", to bring into being, or, literally, to make "stable" -- which is then the ultimate root. Technical terms The technical term for "Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Dahlemense Strain" is the current official longest word: Acetyl­seryl­tyrosyl­seryl­isoleucyl­threonyl­seryl­prolyl­seryl­glutaminyl­phenyl­alanyl­valyl­phenyl­alanyl­leucyl­seryl­seryl­valyl­tryptophyl­alanyl­aspartyl­prolyl­isoleucyl­glutamyl­leucyl­leucyl­asparaginyl­valyl­cysteinyl­threonyl­seryl­seryl­leucyl­glycyl­asparaginyl­glutaminyl­phenyl­alanyl­glutaminyl­threonyl­glutaminyl­glutaminyl­alanyl­arginyl­threonyl­threonyl­glutaminyl­valyl­glutaminyl­glutaminyl­phenyl­alanyl­seryl­glutaminyl­valyl­tryptophyl­lysyl­prolyl­phenyl­alanyl­proly­lglutaminyl­seryl­threonyl­valyl­arginyl­phenyl­alanyl­prolyl­glycyl­aspartyl­valyl­tyrosyl­lysyl­valyl­tyrosyl­arginyl­tyrosyl­asparaginyl­alanyl­valyl­leucyl­aspartyl­prolyl­leucyl­isoleucyl­threonyl­alanyl­leucyl­leucyl­glycyl­threonyl­phenyl­alanyl­aspartyl­threonyl­arginyl­asparaginyl­arginyl­isoleucyl­isoleucyl­glutamyl­valyl­glutamyl­asparaginyl­glutaminyl­glutaminyl­seryl­prolyl­threonyl­threonyl­alanyl­glutamyl­threonyl­leucyl­aspartyl­alanyl­threonyl­arginyl­arginyl­valyl­aspartyl­aspartyl­alanyl­threonyl­valyl­alanyl­isoleucyl­arginyl­seryl­alanyl­asparaginyl­isoleucyl­asparaginyl­leucyl­valyl­asparaginyl­glutamyl­leucyl­valyl­arginyl­glycyl­threonyl­glycyl­leucyl­tyrosyl­asparaginyl­glutaminyl­asparaginyl­threonyl­phenyl­alanyl­glutamyl­seryl­methionyl­seryl­glycyl­leucyl­valyl­tryptophyl­threonyl­seryl­alanyl­prolyl­alanyl­serine Another word, a scientific name for tryptophan synthetase, which is made up of 267 amino acids, has appeared written down a number of times and has 1,909 letters. 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Without entering that debate, let it be noted that the longest officially recognized place name in an English-speaking country is Taumatawhakatang­ihangakoauauot­amateaturipukaka­pikimaunga­horonuku­pokaiwhenuak­itanatahu (85 letters) which is a hill in New Zealand. The 58 letter name Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogerychwyrndrobwll­llantysiliogogogoch is the famous name of a town in Wales in the United Kingdom. Critics, however, have alleged that the name (which was adopted in the mid 19th century) was contrived solely to be "the longest name of a town in Great Britain". The longest station name in the UK, at 68 letters, is: Gorsafawddacha'idraigodanheddogleddollônpenrhynareurdraethceredigion which was contrived to beat the Welsh Town. The longest place name in the United States (45 letters) is Chargoggagogg­manchauggagogg­chaubunagungamaugg. The longest hyphenated name in the U.S. is Winchester-on-the-Severn, a town in Maryland. It is questionable whether any of the above are English words, being Maori, Welsh, and native American words respectively. Sesquipedalianism Although only seventeen letters long "sesquipedalianism" deserves a mention. It is a made up word, derived from Latin, probably in the nineteenth century and was probably intended originally as a joke. It means literally "using words one and half feet long" ie eighteen inches (it would be inappropriate to convert this into the metric scale). A real word found from http://www.phobialist.com/ Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - is the fear of long words (36 letters long). See also: English language, one-letter English word, two-letter English word

uhm that word is not in the dictionary, which dictionary are you using?

Is rat 2 flying it?

*lol* god i wonder how many people get that :) btw, these pretzels are making me thirsty!

manbird also wrote the article on p 50, but I don't know if he considers himself a dz.comer anymore...